WH: Obama will totally be an asset for Democrats this year

posted at 12:01 pm on March 17, 2014 by Guy Benson

Senior presidential adviser Dan Pfeiffer turned in a predictably hacktastic performance on Meet the Press yesterday, including this gem about President Obama’s standing among Democrats ahead of the 2014 elections:

“The president will be an asset in every way possible.”

Fact-check rating: Seventeen Pinocchios On Fire. A string of prominent Democratic incumbents and candidates have pointedly declined to be seen with Obama on the campaign trail, even in blueish states. Washington Post columnist and former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen surveys the landscape and explains why members of the president’s own party are mired in an Obama “trap:”

[Democrats] are trapped. If they follow the advice of those who say Democrats should double down and launch a full-throated defense of Obamacare, they lose independents. If they follow the advice of those who say Democrats should attack Obamacare, they despirit their base. And if they listen to those who argue they should walk the middle ground and talk about their plans to “fix” Obamacare — precisely the message that failed in Florida — they alienate everyone. They have no good options…Democrats are putting on a brave face, but behind the scenes they are panicking. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll last week found that 48 percent of Americans say they’re less likely to vote for a candidate who’s a solid supporter of the Obama administration, while just 26 percent say they’re more likely to vote for that candidate. That suggests that what happened in Florida could very well happen nationally this November.

Pfeiffer also claimed that Democrats will command an all-important advantage on jobs and the economy (Americans’ top priority) heading into the fall. Nope. A WaPo/ABC News survey released in late January showed a significant GOP lead on the economy, with Republicans outperforming their 2010 showing on the issue. Fox News’ March poll pegged Obama’s approval ratings on job creation and economic stimulus at (33/59) and (35/56), respectively. White House flacks can yammer on about Obama’s electoral prowess all they want, but how might they explain this phenomenon?

“The immediate fallout, I’m told, from that Florida special election: We have already seen a number of senior House Democrats announce their retirements. I’m told that in the next week to ten days to look for two — perhaps three — more, as Democrats decide, ‘we’re not going to win the majority back.’”

Democrats caught a break today with Minnesota’s Collin Peterson announcing that he’ll seek re-election after all, but John King’s sources suggest that several others are likely to pack it in. The FL-13 result was just too demoralizing. I’ll leave you with Republicans twisting the knife, challenging vulnerable Democrats to sign this letter addressed to their party’s greatest “asset:”

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An anvil tied to your waist while in the ocean could be considered an asset, if your goal was to learn to breathe water. Lots of people have tried and failed, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be done. There’s a first time for everything!

Robert Gibbs: “If the Democrats lose the Senate, turn out the lights, the party’s over”.

Hint to Gibbs and the Democrats: The “Party” was over the day ONLY DEMOCRATS crammed the government takeover of healthcare down the throats of an unwilling American public. The polling said NO. Every Republican in both branches of Congress said NO. Yet the Democrats said FY to the country, we’ll do it our way whether you like it or not. The 2010 “shellacking” was a shocking revelation to every House Democrat who chose to go against the will of the people on this issue. Now that over six million have had their health care plans cancelled, (by design under ACA*), every Democratic Senator that took part in the facilitation of this train wreck will be removed from their duties as representatives.

The Democrat’s narrative that Republicans have “no plans” and are not willing to help “fix” Obamacare is falling on deaf ears. First of all, you can’t “fix” a law of this magnitude when the President and HHS has waived or delayed three quarters of the law. You can’t “fix” a law that has been transformed by the Supreme Court into a TAX. You can’t “fix” a law that is written as a federal mandate, where again, by design, is meant to drive/force millions to sign up for federally designed policies that are neither affordable, nor maintains the doctor/patient relationship, (a false deception promised by our President and echoed by every Democrat who embraced this policy).

Tonight, amid his usual barrage of criticism leveled at Vladimir Putin, he’s turning his fire on President Obama and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Discussing President Carter’s foreign policy, he compliments the former President’s “Very tough stands on human rights.” President Obama, however, he gives lower marks. In response to another tweeter, he writes that when it comes to the crisis in Ukraine, “so far, Carter looks like Churchill in comparison.”

There is an ongoing debate as to whether Obama is a genius who has implemented a devious plan, or an ill-educated incompetent, ignorant of even elementary knowledge, guided by clueless academics and fanatics. I side with the latter.

Due to the inability of the president and congressional Democrats to move their agenda through Congress, the president is having to govern through executive order and revising federal regulations.

Republicans have latched on to this to make the case around the country that Obama is a dictator and an imperial president. But governing through executive order isn’t a sign of strength. It’s a sign of weakness.

Don’t underestimate the stupidity of the leftists. I know many who believe the democrats have done nothing wrong. Don’t forget, the left have that magical ability to find ballots, where before, none existed. There are still many believers of the commie way.

We can laugh, but this is a great example of propaganda at work. Dems say this because they know most of the media will go along with it and just report it verbatim, govt and media putting the talking points out just like North Korea. Problem dems and the media have is America is still a somewhat free country with access to other info than just the mainstream media, but they’re working on that too.

But on Capitol Hill, Democrats are furious that the same major contributors who enabled Mr. Obama and allied outside groups to raise over $1 billion for his re-election in 2012 are not rallying to ensure the president does not face a Congress controlled entirely by Republicans for his final two years.

Democrats say that the party needs more donors with the means of the California billionaire Thomas F. Steyer, who is helping candidates who support addressing climate change, to protect candidates who backed the health law.

“I’m not in the super PAC business, but we need somebody like a Steyer to get in the fight on the Affordable Care Act,” said Representative John Yarmuth of Kentucky. Democrats, he said, are “getting beat to death.”

Koch Brothers contributing = bad

Soros and the likes contributin = glorious

All of you hypocrites, yes you Harry Reid too, suffocate, from your dual standards.

I might be able to believe that Democrats will get pummeled except that the president got elected again less than two years ago and I figured surely the American people would t be dumb enough to elect him again. But they did. I don’t figure they’re smart enough to put the Democrats out this election cycle either. Not enough to make a difference. And they’ll certainly forget everything when they pull the lever for Hillary.
Not optimistic at all about the voting electorate. Even with Obamacare around their necks the American people are still stupid enough to think it can be fixed. We’re hopelessly done.

Same here, i think we’ve reached that point where 51% has figured out they can live off the other 49% forever, that means a permanent dem majority. Only way to stop it is to take away governments power to confiscate money.

i think we’ve reached that point where 51% has figured out they can live off the other 49% forever, that means a permanent dem majority. Only way to stop it is to take away governments power to confiscate money.

We HAVE reached that point, and our politicians have figured that out too.

Don’t underestimate the stupiditycraftiness of the leftists. I know many who believe the democrats have done nothing wrong. Don’t forget, the left have that magical ability to find ballots, where before, none existed. There are still many believers of the commie way.

birdwatcher on March 17, 2014 at 12:35 PM

The Dems know their only chance is voter fraud, so this is just setting the stage. After all, how would it look if the Dems were pessimistic about their chances and then surprise! squeaked out the victories they needed?

What scares me is that Obama and his merry band of idiots really do believe this. We have an executive that is delusional. He truly does believe he is doing a great job or at worst a solid B+. Reality and fact have no place in his world.

On one hand, it’s the turnout argument, that Republicans will be excited about turning out in November and Democrats won’t. But in a larger sense, Dionne’s message is that Democrats need to change their attitude, and quickly. Which, of course, is like telling someone suffering from depression to get over it. The problem runs a little deeper than that.

Don’t underestimate the stupidity craftiness of the leftists. I know many who believe the democrats have done nothing wrong. Don’t forget, the left have that magical ability to find ballots, where before, none existed. There are still many believers of the commie way.

birdwatcher on March 17, 2014 at 12:35 PM

The Dems know their only chance is voter fraud, so this is just setting the stage. After all, how would it look if the Dems were pessimistic about their chances and then surprise! squeaked out the victories they needed?

ncinca on March 17, 2014 at 1:17 PM

Yep; in Minnesota they demonstrated how to steal a Senate seat. So much hangs on the Senate in this election that the Democratics will push voter fraud as far as they need to, because they have Eric Holder.

This goes to confirm the “common knowledge” that Obama can’t stand having anyone smarter than himself around, he feels intimidated. Those cabinet officials who rarely get to see him would be those he suspects are smarter.

So he surrounds himself with people not so bright, yes-men and sycophants all, so that he is always “the smartest guy in the room.”

This leads him to appoint “senior advisers” like Pfeiffer. Why else would you want someone that clueless as an “adviser”?